Lebus

Lebus was a small prince-bishopric on the middle Oder, named after its cathedral town. Bishop Stephan II, who had returned from exile in 1333 after conflict with Brandenburg, ruled in 1337.

The see returned to Lebus in 1354, but Charles IV’s men destroyed its cathedral in 1373; from 1385 the bishops resided at Fürstenwalde. The bishopric remained Catholic when the Reformation reached Brandenburg in 1540. Elector Joachim Frederick imposed Protestantism in 1557, and the diocese was suppressed in 1598, its lands passing to Brandenburg.